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Gerry Gibbs: Gerry Gibbs & the Electric Thrasher Orchestra Play the Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975

Read "Gerry Gibbs & the Electric Thrasher Orchestra Play the Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 8, 2010

Among other callings, drummer/percussionist and bandleader Gerry Gibbs serves as occasional “aural historian" of the mercurial music of Miles Davis. Gibbs' most recent tribute to one of the most controversial and notorious segments of Davis' career--fusion explorations that began to expand jazz with Nefertitti (Columbia) in 1967 and continued to stretch past even its most elastic ...

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40 Year Old Bitches, New MilesTones & Others, Too

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 28, 2010

AntibalasWho is This America? Ropeadope Records2010 Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the ...

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Rickie Lee Jones: Balm in Gilead

Read "Balm in Gilead" reviewed by Gina Vodegel

by Gina Vodegel
January 10, 2010

If a musical career spans a period of thirty years, there's bound to be ups and downs along the way. Rickie Lee Jones has always insisted on making her own choices, sometimes baffling her critics with yet another puzzle to work out. Here the Duchess of Coolsville combines her multiple talents as an artist, songwriter and ...

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Take Five With Brian Swartz

by AAJ Staff
March 17, 2007

Meet Brian Swartz:Instrument(s): trumpet, flugelhorn, Akai/Steiner EVI.Teachers and/or influences? Clarence Mitchell, John Coppola, Delbert Bump, Bill Bing, Gary Pratt, Bobby Shew, Tony Lujan, John Thomas, Tom Harrell, Uan Rasey.I knew I wanted to be a musician when... When I started high school, I wanted to be in the band but ...

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Three

By Brian Swartz

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Samba de Outono; I've Never Been In Love Before; My Shining Hour; Mi Sonita; I Thought About You; Emily;' A Ghost Of A Chance; Out Of View; Poor Butterfly; The Best Thing For You Is Me; HOw Deep Is The Ocean; Father To Many.

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Brian Swartz Trio: Three

Read "Three" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 14, 2006

Trumpeter Brian Swartz came up with an interesting concept for this album. Going back to 1979, he cites a series of four albums by Chet Baker made for the Steeplechase label (The Touch of Your Lips, Daybreak, This Is Always, Someday My Prince Will Come) with with a trio that eliminated both the drummer and the ...

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